Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-07
State News.
ANDROSCoGGM.

umeht. The committee chosen 70 saIsc, !.
ueslen nave ordered one of white bronze from,
Driaeport, Conn. 1t will be twenty e.,
h'gh' surmounted with a bronze soldier fnlIr
armed and equipped. One hundred and
twenty OF the names of those who died in ,ba
war' from the jurisdiction of the @ Ar
post, will be placed on the tablets. II i, Az
pecteo the monument will be unveiled Nc.
mortal Day.-The property of the Deni.on
manufacturing Co. is to be sold very aeon
ne appraisers have nearly completed the;,
duties. 'neir
EDWARD Plummer of Lisbon, age At of the
anoroscoegin Water Power Company. saws
we nave finished up our logging operations
at hiiey Plantation on Sunday river. Four
million logs will come down this year lt's
oeeh tne worst winter for manufacturing at
tue MIL we ever had. have had to use
uynani'e all winter to keep the chan Ell clear
ior the logs to come to the mill. There
hasn't been but two or three dave this -.
out that the logs have come into the mill
covered with a coating OF ice an inch tbick :,
ARoosrooK
The Steam Mill on Three Brook. in rho
town or Elaine, owned BY G. W. Collins of
bringewater. which was DESTROYED by fire
last faii, has been rebuilt and is now running
ana saving out large quantities of shingles
Inc Times says that Houlton business men
nave agreed not to take Provincial money
after May LIST, except at discount of Ave ner
cent. r.
Ih> farmers of Presque Isle are WAXING
earnest in their agitation of \ bu,,er fsa,n,'
Several very enthusiastic meetings have been
held to discuss the subject.
The citizens of MapletoH are determined
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employed hereafter in their schools. cor
respondent to the North Star writes :.
something should be done to weed ont
those VINO are not qualified to instruct a
schooi. There are some persons in our
town VINO go into our schools to teach with
no other motive than to get through if posi-.
ole ana draw the money; the result is robbie
ry of children and taking money they give
no equivalent for"
FRANKLIN.
Bradford Parker OF Jay has sold from his
orchard the past year about 400 barrels of
apples, amounting to about S90O-auite a
little item in the farm account A good Maine
orchard is worth having.
AT a very large town meeting at Farming.
ton. Monday. April 4. presided over bv Capt.
Charles W. Keyes, Pennington voted f. build
new town house at once and 81. 900 was an.
proprlated for the purpose. Pennington Viii
lage Corporation unite with the town in build.
ing and fine edifce will be the result
HANCOCK
Ellsworth is out of COAL it being said that
there is not pound which can be purchased.
The citizens have been trying to buy of the
Maine Central, but the railroad is getting
short and does not dare to accountable them
1t looks as if that city would be obliged to go
back to the old-fashioned wood fire.
OXFORD.
A correspondent of the Oxford Democrat
writes: A necessity long since realized bv
Norway, is about to be supplied in the nature
of safe deposit for the town records For
many years past, the office Of the assessors
and seectmen has been furnished with an
iron safe, at best of fair quality only, and
by no means 6re-proof. When the National
Bank vault was constructed there was at the
same time built, but not finished entirely,
another vault, under that of the bank. The
latter is being completed TO be used in com
mon by the bank and the town; thus afford.
ing an ample and safe repository for books
and other town records in case of fire. Mr.
Albion Stevens of Norway Lake is the orr
ginator of this plan, by whom the work is
credit.
East Sumner now has its first tslephone
line. 1t is an acoustic line fo- an experiment,
put up by Eastman, who intends to put up a
line from the post office to his residence al
the Corner"
The Odd Fellows of Anasagunticook Lodge,
Canton, will celebrate the anniversary of the
Order April &c, at their ball. A committee
has been chosen to prepare programme ;or
the occasion, which is to be public for mem
bers Of the fraternity, their families, and in
vited guests. large gathering is anticipated
AT Peru, Lula Pomroy, little girl about
years old, while out sliding, slid into the
mill stream, under the ice, and would
have been drowned but for the timely assist
ance of a man passing. He had to reach I'M
der the ice and pull her out by her hood and
hair.
PENoBsCoT.
The measles are raging in Bangor. More
than one hundred children are out of school
sick with this disease.
Judge Bishop thinks of establishing wat r
system in Newport village, to supply its wants
as well as to furnish and replenish reservoirs
for the new fire engine. He proposes to con
vey the water by means of hydrants from ore
large reservoir, the location of which should
be near the Sawyer House on High street, to
all parts of the village.
The first Penobscot river salmon of the
season was received in Bangor, Tuesday, st
Brown & Pages market 1t was beauty
and quite large. The fish was caught al
Winterport and cost 81 25 per pound The
Bangor Exchange had the honor of serving
the first salmon of the season az Landlord
Thayer Immediately purchased this one.
PIscATAoUIs.
Calvin Chamberlain, of Foxcroft, the well
known agriculturalist was thrown from his
sled and s. rously injured Friday, April LIST.
Luke Towne of Foxcroft, about 20 years
old committed suicide Sunday morn ing, April
Sd. He has for some time past been living
alone in a house owned by Joseph NJ. Bassett,
and was taking care OF Bassetrs stock.
Several years ago he attempted suicide in a
like manner but was discovered before life
was extinct. He has since shown no signs
of insanity until Sunday, when a neighbor,
discovering something wrong, notified some
men at work on the railroad. They immF-
diately went to the house and upon searching
the premises found him dead in the stable.
The coroner WAS called, but deemed an in
quest unnecessary,
YORK.
In his discourse, last Sunday, April 3,upon
amusements the Rev. Mr.. Pendexter of Saco
among other objects, attacked the Saco High
School, asserting that there were amusements
pursued bv the pupils, of immoral tendencies.
The editor of the Evening Times thinks that
the clergyman should have made his charges
explicit and says If there has been or is any